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Dune: Worst Franchise in History
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Gary Sax wrote: Barney, spice makes people live a really long life and helps their health, and it's a mind altering narcotic that can give some psychic abilities.
. . . and enables interstellar space travel, which pretty much means the planet runs the entire galactic economy. Not as tasty as cumin, but it has its uses.
The book is quite dense. Herbert had an ability to describe concepts via new vocabulary (e.g., "plasteel") or via passing reference where the concept could be discerned from its usage. It's not a book that you read quickly. But it's a book that packs twice as much material into the same number of pages as other books in the genre.
I read Dune and Battlefield Earth back to back and in spite of Battlefield Earth being twice as long Dune felt like a much bigger read. It's not the kind of book that translates well into a film.
But I'll agree, it is likely the franchise that has generated the least amount of positive cash flow for the amount of potential it has.
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Star Wars is terrible. Incest, homosexual beastiality, furries. Good lord, terrible! Don't even get me started on that little green fucker. Dude needs to go back to school and learn to speak properly.tscook wrote: I think you mean Star Wars.
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FACT.QPCloudy wrote: Fuck Star Wars though. Star Trek is so much better.
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QPCloudy wrote:
Star Wars is terrible. Incest, homosexual beastiality, furries. Good lord, terrible! Don't even get me started on that little green fucker. Dude needs to go back to school and learn to speak properly.tscook wrote: I think you mean Star Wars.
Double-edged sword. Those are all the reasons that make Star Wars awesome. How many furries does Star Trek have? Zilch I bet.
So do you really not like Dune? I'm confused. I love the book and the David Lynch movie, but disappointed we didn't get to see Jodorowsky do it. I've never read any of the Dun sequels, I heard they were lames-ville.
Never played the board game, but I was intrigued by the CCG game when it came out.
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The Herbert estate seems to believe that if enough books are written they'll eventually end up with the one spinoff that's as good as the original - the Kwisatz Haderach if you will. Dune was great, but it might have been easier to sell as a seizure-inducing HFR3D trilogy without all the baggage.
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Dune, the setting is really interesting. The feudalistic nature of it with powerful nobles that had to be played off each other lest they become too strong and unseat the Emperor was relatively unique. The fact that interstellar travel was based on the use of a drug only found on one harsh desolate planet was cool. Even the Freeman were fairly cool in their understanding of the planet and how to cope with it.
What sucked about Dune. And I mean really sucked was the adolescent philosophy that runs through it. Hebert trying to make it seem a lot deeper than it actually is. Just annoying really. Frankly I think the book is overrated.
Subsequent books after the first by Hebert and his kid? Terrible.
The movie? God awful trash.
The game? Only played it once. Thought it was pretty good and influential. You can see bits and pieces of it in many games since.
Star Trek? Love it. Even through the absolute worst of the episodes. "Help me, Spock! Help me!"
STNG? Has it's moments but can really suck. The first season is garbage. The latter seasons where every plot boiled down to "Assumed ally is somehow mentally altered and now is an enemy" or "Holodeck comes to life". Damn, I would have that holodeck destroyed for all the chaos it caused.
ST Deep Space Nine? First two seasons are great. Haven't really made it past them.
ST Voyager? Hated it.
ST the one with Scott Bakula, whatever the hell it's called. Watched the first episode and that was it.
Star Wars? The original trilogy is awesome. The rest of the movies suck. Some of the fiction that came out after the original trilogy, specifically a set of books revolving around Han Solo I remember as being really good. But I was much younger when I read them so who knows how they've held up.
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I especially love the look of the fully transformed Guild Navigators. When that giant fish tank rolled (or levitates?) into the Emperor's throne room, and the Navigator floated out of the smoke, it gave me the chills.
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